• Time Before Land

    Time Before Land



  • Time Before Land

    Time Before Land



  • Time Before Land

    Time Before Land



  • Time Before Land

    Time Before Land



  • Time Before Land

    Time Before Land



  • Time Before Land

    Time Before Land



Time Before Land

by Juliane Henrich

Time Before Land

Germany | 2021 | 80:00 min

Original Title:
VOR ZEIT

Formal Categories

Family Human Interest Society Personal Point of View

Content Categories

Documentary
Synopsis
The film Land Before Time takes the director's family history as a starting point to explore the concepts of home and historiography in the politically highly charged landscape of Silesia. The protagonist embarks on a trip to the Polish village of Krasiejów as the director's alter ego. We follow her through the summer days with surreal encounters where the borders of fiction and documentary are blurred. She meets people of German and Polish origin who had to leave their homes at the end of the war, she stumbles upon monuments, and observes paleontologists, searching for an ancient being. The ground as a metaphor for belonging seems to speak out of everything she sees and dinosaurs start to populate the screen, questioning the certainty of descendance.
Festivals/Awards
2021
64 DOK Leipzig
38 Kassel DOKFEST
Cast and Crew
  • Director Juliane Henrich
  • Producer Thomas Kaske, Juliane Henrich
Original Languages

Polish

German

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